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Wild houses / by Barrett, Colin,1982-author.;
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as "a doyen of the sentence," and by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of "unique genius," Barrett now expands his canvas with a debut novel that contains as much grit, plot, and linguistic energy as any of his celebrated short stories. As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English-younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English-bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo's fraternal enforcers and Dev's cousins. Dev's quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian. Meanwhile, Doll's girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Nicky, reeling from a fractious Friday and plagued by ghosts and tragedy of her own, sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina. Set against Barrett's trademark depictions of small-town Irish life, Wild Houses is a thrillingly told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Black humor.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Kidnapping; Revenge; Siblings; Small cities; Tragedy;
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Shakespeare : King Lear / by Flower, Celeste.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-127)Filmography: p. 127-128.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; English drama (Tragedy); English drama;
© 2002., Cambridge University Press,
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The Daisy children / by Grant, Sofia,author.;
When Katie Garrett gets the unexpected news that she's received an inheritance from the grandmother she hardly knew, it couldn't have come at a better time. She flees Boston - and her increasingly estranged husband - and travels to rural Texas. There, she's greeted by her distant cousin Scarlett. Friendly, flamboyant, eternally optimistic, Scarlett couldn't be more different from sensible Katie. And as they begin the task of sorting through their grandmother's possessions, they discover letters and photographs that uncover the hidden truths about their shared history, and the long-forgotten tragedy of the New London school explosion of 1937 that binds them.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Consolidated School (New London, Tex.); Tragedy; Family secrets; Cousins; Inheritance and succession;
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By the light of burning dreams : the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution / by Talbot, David,1951-author.; Talbot, Margaret,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder of Salon, and the author of 'The Devil's Chessboard.'.
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Death on two fronts : national tragedies and the fate of democracy in Newfoundland, 1914-34 / by Cadigan, Sean T.(Sean Thomas),1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Political culture;
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The Djinn waits a hundred years / by Khan, Shubnum,author.;
"An ... atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago ... Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Boardinghouses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Haunted houses; Jinn; Mansions; Secrecy; Tragedy;
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Four friends : promising lives cut short / by Cohan, William D.,author.;
'Four Friends' is a powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate and bestselling author, William D. Cohan.
Subjects: Kennedy, John F., Jr., 1960-1999.; Kennedy, John F., Jr., 1960-1999; Daniel, William W. (William Wallace), 1959-2000.; Berman, Jack.; Bull, Harry.; Phillips Academy; Tragedy.;
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Ballykissangel: S3. by Boyd, Dermot,film director.; Harrison, Paul,film director.; Cotter, Tom,film director.; Kirwan, Dervla,actor.; McCafferty, Frankie,actor.; Toibin, Niall,actor.; Hanly, Peter,actor.; Tompkinson, Stephen,actor.; Doyle, Tony,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dervla Kirwan, Frankie McCafferty, Niall Toibin, Peter Hanly, Stephen Tompkinson, Tony DoyleOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 1998.Births, deaths and mariages. Assumpta and Peter decide on their future - but tragedy strikes.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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The Mandalorian. [videorecording] / by Favreau, Jon,creator.; Abtahi, Omid,actor.; Carano, Gina,1982-actor.; Esposito, Giancarlo,actor.; Herzog, Werner,1942-actor.; Pascal, Pedro,actor.; Swallow, Emily,1979-actor.; Weathers, Carl,actor.; Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),distributor.;
Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, Werner Herzog.The journeys of the Mandalorian through the Star Wars galaxy continue. Once a lone bounty hunter, Din Djarin has reunited with Grogu. Meanwhile, the New Republic struggles to lead the galaxy away from its dark history. The Mandalorian will cross paths with old allies and make new enemies as he and Grogu continue their journey together.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Mandalorian (Fictitious character); Grogu (Fictitious character); Bounty hunters; Extraterrestrial beings; Jedi (Fictitious characters); Life on other planets; Interstellar travel; Guardian and ward;
For private home use only.
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West side story [videorecording (DVD)] by Wise, Robert,1914; Robbins, Jerome; Wood, Natali; Beymer, Richard,1939; Tamblyn, Russ; Moreno, Rita; Chakiris, George; Bernstein, Leonard,1918; Sondheim, Stephen; Laurents, Arthur.West side story; Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Romeo and Julie;
Photography, Daniel L. Fapp ; production design, Boris Leven ; film editor, Thomas Stanford ; choreography, Jerome Robbins ; music, Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim.Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris.Updates the classic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, set in the late 1950s in a New York ethnic street gang exposé.CHV rating: PG.Classement CV: DP.Not rated.NTSC 1.Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director, Robert Wise; Best Choreography, Jerome Robbins; Best Cinematography; Best Supporting Actress, Rita Moreno; Best Supporting Actor, George Chakiris
Subjects: Gangs; Musical film; Feature film; Video recordings for the hearing impaire;
© [1998], c1961., MGM Home Entertainment,
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